Lorain Standard, The (Newspaper) - November 3, 1840, Elyria, Ohio NEW IE 31 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3 1840 THG STANDARD 3 AT OHIO BY Uil OH will be 1 to per annum H n or cents tf noil paid sit iNo p w dNc nil are except iu the discretion of tlic 1 conspicuously inserted nt die prices Co u ordering nr for must be POST PAID in lo re- attention P 0 E T R Y We Sloop to Conquer This insulting molto winch was borne so triumphantly in Hie procession at British Convention at hns called from the pen or a private correspondent the it ba read and pr Vita En THE DEMOCRAT'S REBUKE You stoop lo curse the thought The lip lie thai it Our country never lie bought Nor conquered VVL: cin it Ai braves iho he rock Vs cleaves the clou I We'll And triumph o'er minion You stoop to corner wlin vou Thai from mountain descividing A ml with tlie sons Mending With golden bride add s'nilei S nv i ho vile oT r i ik o on with slime il Ths of cnr ion Yon lo fiom pinnacles of 7 Whit proud pre-eminence vo rj r i ir unrein Fed on nf Ye n i ill in llin eve meil You sloop tr free oi glory's b inner ym hare h ince i's C ill he i sires tore li irp fro 11 uy ilie the And in i MI irch of mii We to conq WLI iVr h roll i A ri UTII linger 1 -In I j U toe inh to Go I n's JB i ir dei noir j in 1 j Til I Of The hearts ol freemen wink k w curs es and The yu lips il hem keep cd VORACITY PIKE I Tho voracity of this ivh is almost i in a for i their omnivorous propensities young ducks and coots kittens and tho young of its every kind of frosh water fish have bjon found in tho stomach of thj It is said to contend with tho for its pray and has boon known to pull a mula into i tho water by a washerwoman by tho foot indeed to 710 bounds to ils gluttony as it i almost indiscriminately it mools with and every animal it It says tho shark of tho fresh waters and thore a devastating tyrant doos its in the midst of tho ocean insatiable in its appetites it ravagea with rapidity tho streams tho lakes the fishponds cver it inhabits Blindly ferocious it docs not spare its species and devours OP STONY POINT A ROMANCE OF- REVOLUTION The night had already settled down gloomy and tho evening of ho July 1779 tlie advancing column of army whose uniform it to bo Amorican emerged from a thick wood on tho shoro of Hudson and in an whole dim and shadowy prospect disclosed to thorn along the bank of iho river opened to the sight Par lay now buried in a mass of shadow whilo on tho hither sido of tho river dark gloomy and frowning rose up tho craggy heights of Stony Washed on three sidas by Iho Hudson and protected on the other except along it run row road by a morass tho fort was ono of the most impregnable upon tbo river and its capture as almost im- possibly Vet to thai gallant poso this army was now upon its I march j A turn in the road scon hid them from I river and after a silent march of j souio duration they arrived I in a m lo and a half of the enemy's linos I and baiting at tho command of cjr into columns for the attack Beginning their march thuy soon reached tno marshy ground at iho base of tho hill i said tho low of tho gen- eral from tbo Ironl we arc nigh enough Tho in a whisper down the nnd the column paused on tlic of tbo morass It was a moment of and Every man loll mat m u few tho fato of their enterprise would bo determined and that thoy bo cold in Lain or tho American waving in triumph over dark ahead now through tho thick gloom of midnight Yut not a lip ered nor a chock blanched in that crisis About twenty in front of the column hud tbi lora hope of ono dred nnd With unloaded arid bayonets while farther on u smaller group of forms could be through tho with to cut through tbo Each man a of paper in his hat to distinguish him from in the approaching The pause however which this prospect was but mentary The had approaches to lent promo and waving his sword on high ha gave tho order In an an- other instant tho dark column was moving steadily to the attack It wr s a thrilling during which band crossed over the marsh As yot tho had not discovered thorn Even the veterans with tho eagerness of that moment of suspense Already had tho of the pioneers reached tha and the quick rapid blows of axes rung upon the night when suddenly n shout of alarm broke from the fort ho gun of ci sentry flashed through the gloom and in an instant all wag uproar and confusion within the fortifications Not a moment was to be lost advance shouted Gon Way no as he rapidly on toward tho followed in silence bv his indomitable troops To arms camo borno on the night from the and then followed tho quick roll of tho drum In an instant tho enemy No 319 even its own young without choice it tears and swallows with a sort at their posts and as tho gallant of fury tho remains even of putrid continentals still maintained their silent v kut march a fare such as only desperation could produce burst from every embrasure of tho fort The sant rattle of the musketry the of the tho crashing of ths casses This blood thirsty creature is also one of those to which nature has accorded thn duration of year's for ages it terrifies agitates pursues murders and devours the feebler tants of the waters and as if in spite of its insatiable cruelty it was meant it should every advantage it has not only been gifted with great strength gigantic size and formidable weapons but has also been adorned with of form symmetry of proportions and variety of color We not altogether agree with this eloquent and ingenious French writer in his ad- miration of tho general aspect of the pike Like almost all fishes it boars about it some beautiful tinting when fresh but we think its jaws and oyes gives it rather a malign or diabolical expression such as we would by no means approve of in any relation of our the Rod and ike Gun by Wilson and I'll black your to the typo We flatter ourselves we've impression as the typos said the paper Sodgwick beautifully larks Children aro like lies set along the road reminding us we have gono on the F shot and the lurid light over the soone by tho explosion of Iho shells and the streams of fire pouring from the fort formed a picture which no pen can de- scribe Yet amid it all tho daring ants advanced though not a ger been pulled in their Faithful to the commands of their gen- eral though trembling in every limb with eagerness they kept up thair silent march amid that fiery as if impelled by somo power they pressed Tim whirlwind of firo from tho fort ceased not yet still dashed along charging point of the onet over and bulwark until the enemy borns back by their impetuous quailed before them The works wero forced Then and not till then was ths silence broken A sound rung out fiom the victorious troops over all the thunder of tho battle It was the watchword of success It was heard by the head of the column behind it passed down their lino was caught up by the rear and a wild shout making tho very welkin tremble rung out as they dashed to the attack Tha content was short but Over bulwark and prostrate foes the gallant continental headed by Wayne pressed on and all before thorn mot tho column of thuir army with an enthusiastic in very centre works in another ment tho starry of America waved triumphantly over iho battlement CONTRABAND PARIS J had caught a bad cold just at up my head lo I thro ono of the of tho Major's office in the tlm body ot a negro hanging by tlu neck At tho first and oven at tho second I Look it for a human whom disappointed loves or perhaps tin expeditious justice had of so suddenly but 1 that tho ebony in question was only a kind of doll as largo as life What to think of thio 1 did not know 30 I tho door keeper the meaning of it This is the contraband was the answer on my showing a curiosity to examine it ho kind enough tn act as my cicerone In a dusty ure floor on the walls along the all tho inventions of roguery which have boon confiscated from timo to time by thoso guardians of tho laws iho It is n com- plete arsenal of tho weapons of in complete con- fusion Look vou there is a head up as a nurse with a child that holds just two quarts and a hilf On i tho other side aro as iho and filled with whole armies of cigars On the floor hugs boa constrictor gorged with China silks and just boyond it a of coals curiously with spools of cotton Tho colored who had my so at met with his fate tho full llo was built of in black and liko a or Ethiopian on tho of a carriage tened by tho hands had frequently passed through the gates and was well i known lo tha soldiers who noticed that ho was always showing tooth which they supposed to be tho custom of his country One day the carriage he be- longed to was by rt crowd at the galo There was 0.3 usual a grand rus of and the vocal part bo- ing performed by the drivers nnd iho instrumental part by their whips Tho negro however said a word His good behaviour tho soldiers hold him up ns an Look at the black Tarry yet a little friend the lawyer Of a verity 1 have yet farther to say unto Thou ma Than I must pay and it is my opinion that 1 have touched pitch and been Y Sunday Atlas CUSTOM OF THE PEOPLE Oi One intensely hot day says in his 1 was strolling along the beach when my attention by something lying there an Aral just leaving It was an slrctchcil oa bis back in a hollow scooped out of the sand nothing but IL tailored thin of cloth protected from heat if the sun's rays be- PEOPLE Laziness is tho parent of all sins that have committed since the morning of creation Eve was in a lazy the time tempted her If Adam had lady's history has considerable interest and admiration society of Bombay Probably the whole ample pago of fiction not present on i fl stance of greator determination and kept her busy ahc would have kept out of I staney is in his am wo should all have been in- Saturday Evening Post and as happy as young lambkins art known fore him worts so 110 grain and and ll had commenced Licks when Noah preached to might have boon saved but svore loo to work and so they worn drowned in the great aqueous trophe reason tho Egyptians ro- go Mas 1 soun by the naked cyo at mid-day were too to make own seemed lo be on fire appearing at first of bricks find wished lo compel lie Hebrews a dazzling white then of a reddish do work for thorn Tbo low and an pale color THE WORLD'S END During tiie last two or centuries upwards of thirteen fixed slars have dis- appeared One of them situated in iho Northern Hemisphere presented a liar brilliancy and so bright as to be It of half-boiled lish hn was evidently j drowned in tho Sea they were j supposes that it was burned up as it afterwards i never has been scon Tho con- Lazy people visible sixteen in the last stage of existence com- I m our own days aro plaguing J months How dreadful told mo thai when a man or man became It tomary thus to expose thorn ever being brought until expire a littlo earth thrown over completes their half-formed grave is custom Yet even this barbarous as it is is an improvement on that was formerly practiced An olo writer speaking of tho inhabitants of Socotra says that they generally bury sick before they b real ho their last ing no distinction between a and a dead person They it a duty lo put the patient as soon as possible out of pain and make their requests to their friends when thoy aro on a sick bod which in all acute disorders bo called their death bed a father of a family finds self thus circumstanced and has reason to his dissolution is approaching ho assembles his children round him whether natural or adopted his parents wives and all his acquaintances whom ho strongly to a compliance with the following articles of his last will and aro an everlasting torn on fire tho griat luminary and eye-sore: to The sight of a and its with plains monn'- indolent man or woman tains forests cities and is misery lo iho thrifty and Hants all in flames consumed and gone People of class aro without friends Here wo have a presumptive abhorred bv their own relations tho truth and a solemn Thcy not on- rion of i singular passage in a very old The Heavens shall pass with noise the elements shall melt with a fervent tho world also and kind nrc your j the works hataro shall be up What has been will be again Our sun and nnd earth be by ire It is inscribed in tho Heavens foretold in the Scriptures and tiny and universally dreaded ly bale In work themselves but they halo to see work done would fain have the whole world as useless and inactive as Of who in hanging about shops printing offices and where they can interrupt business Had we as Homer expresses A 1 A of brnss and we could find time and strength to execrate such characters I BUDK LIGHT The Liverpool correspondent of the Philadelphia er among many curious inventions linns that termed tho Bude Light He j says Do we not live in ari age I and aro not th men of of science never to admit any alteration in tho toms or of Ih -ir never to intermarry with foreigners er to permit an affront done to them or i n j r which it 19 by tlie horse predecessors or i stolen from i cither of them the only puris and lawful aristocracy of human nature is a beautiful tiling in way It produces an of light tliR means by to go unpunished and lastly never to suffer a friond in pain when they can relieve him by commonly perform tho last re- quest of tho dying man by means of a white liquor of a strong poisonous ty which from a tree peculiar to island Here it is that legal guards I the tho earth Such is the text comment he found in Peter's ?d Epistle 3d chapter and 11 and 12th ses CURIOUS ROBBERIES BY A A respectable near Fort Augustus has sent lo us of which the following is the After a walk over his farm and on a very warm morning he had asleep on a high hill On awakening ho found that his broad blue bonnet and a yellow silk handkerchief which he had placed beside him wore both missing At first he that they had been token away in sport by some person on the but on inquiry every individual tho farm i u IQ 11 i v j U vui y tii moon shinns you can read the clock by j atld neighborhood who could possibly f friend as cool have approached the spot all ample to ho crowd u me i i j 11 i i dors nrc more common than in any other they cried how well ho 1 He showed perfect to their My said a clerk at thr barrier jumping upon the and slapping our sable friend upon the shoulder wo are very obliged to you O surprise the shoulder rallied Tho was he sounded footman all over and found that lie was a mem of metal and as full as his skin would hold of the very best liquor The juicy mortal cd tit once and carried in The first night the revenue people drank up one of his shoulders and ho was soon bled to It is now she years country in the world for besides tho in- human custom last mentioned tho other requests of dying men produce lass quarrels and i revenge of tho injuries done to their ancestors entail family fends and bloodshed upon posterity for a long of yours NEWSPAPERS A child to road becomes with a newspaper he roads of names and things which arc very and ho will make a progress accordingly A newspaper in ono year says Mr Weeks is worth a schooling lo a child and every father must consider that substantial in forma he lost all the moisture of his system and is was reduced to a dry the French A CASE OP CONSCIENCE Friend said Zephaniah to his master a rich Quaker if the city of Brotherly Love thou not cat of that leg of mutton thy meal Wherefore not 7 asked the good Quaker Because the dog that that son of Belial whom the world call Lawyer Foxcraft hath coins into thy pantry and stolen antl he hath it Beware friend of ing false witness against thy neighbor Art thou sure it was friend domestic animal Yea verily I saw it with my eyes and it was lawyer dog Upon what evil times have we len sighed ths harmless sectary as he wended his way to his neighbor's office Friends said he I to ask thy opinion I am all replied the scribe laying down his pen Supposing frind Foxcraft that my dog has gone into my neighbor's pantry and stolen therefrom a leg of mutton and I saw him and could call him by nams what ought I to do 1 Pay for the can be j clearer Know thou friend thy dog oven the beast man denominate hath stolen from my pantry a leg of ton of tho just value of and I paid for it in the ket this morning O well then it is my opinion that I must pay for it and having dona so thd worthy friend turned to depart The mother of the family being ono of its heals and having a more immediate of children ought to ba it Oh replied my as that's thn Bude 1 begged an explanation and apparently astonished at my innocence he gave Liim and gas are brought into some culiar contact and the effect as il struck mo was thut of intensely bright shine Ths of Lords and com- mons are lit in this manner and it is in- into the theatres The galvanic telegraph is in usa on tho London and cars on which are worked with a and when full a galvanic wire is touched and successively rapid as two ticks on a watch is tha signal and the motion of the cars The Js four miles and whore it four thousand I am Lhc signal would be instantaneous and faithful They arc laying one down to Windsor for state purposes and it is expected they will be in use all over the spot knowledge of the missing article's Soms weeks thereafter our correspondent and a ascended a very auri gerous rock on the farm to the a Great was his when the first article taken out of the ncsl was the missing yellow silk kerchief then tho broad blue boine with three eggs most comfortably in it next appeared an old tarlan coat with tobacco in ona pocket and Orr's Almanac for 1339 in the other f almanac having tho words barely legible J written upon it then came a flannel marked with worsted D C J u of old while u- piece of letter with green wax and the Inverness un old red and while nnd a assortment of o colion paper ripe Ths must been carrying on its larcenies on a large and miscellaneous scale The ri- ANOTHER SAILOR GIRL A singular romantic affair says the j maid inf Timos of the Gth ult has just may boon brought to our notice namely that a sailor having arrived here somo davs ago in the ship Bucephalus of mmd pure m language and gho is a very comely interesting girl of and As tho in- j 18 ot British officer and of her children she should self be instructed A mind fortified against the ills of life and is braced for any emergency Children amused by reading and study are erate and more easily governed How many thoughtless young men related to an English nobleman who having tho misfortune to lose her mother at an early age was placed in an English convent with the view ultimately of veil Whilst a boarder in this place shn for tbo sake of hsr health occasionally somo friends in tbo neighborhood where in the house of one have spent their evenings m a tavern or met of her attachment I grog shop which ought to hive boon de- voted to reading How parents who never spent twenty dollars for books for their families would gladly have en thousands to reclaim a son who had ignorantly and into temptation thoughtlessly Weekly newspapers can bo Incl at one to three dollars per year two to five cents per week F costs tho printer before it is printed about ono csnt Ho from one to four cents for his editorial duties and for his printing distributing sition This is low It is tha price paid for which must keep alive Thus the readers of newspapers get the cheapest of all possible reading MARCH op signboard mar has ths following sical caution to the disorderly sons found tir on this groan will be executed with utmost ths law NOT so lady being dreadfully frightened at a bull that had broken from his pasture called to some men who were in tho neighborhood to drive away cow now an officer in of the native Subsequently she was consigned to a convent in Dublin to the end that she should tha sbo months but resisting every argument to hovto do so privation snaring ail cruel treatment at the h in U oV lady wore list lot Srn foil and was conveyed to the hospital though the connivance of n young English lady an inmate of of tho convent who supplied her with sho m ide escape in tho dis- of a form i'd tho romantic resolution of coming out to Bombay in of young above It would occupy a were wo to all hor wanderings and tho and privations of the poor youna in her to on ship bound for Bombay This at last she accomplished A few days after ths ship sailed ths strange boy on boing by tho captain whence he camo proved to bo a young lady A cabin was humanely to her at once and she was treated exactly as a lady Truth is than fiction and here is romance in raal life that decidedly dates the saying of the poet This young cf dramatic Je taken by Sir a link in the of lo prove the increase of crime in the Highlands consequent on the of Uic Reform Act We may guard against depredators but how aro to protect a- gainst those on tbo wing We commit this delinquent and his spasica to the ilant of the new lice constabulary force Inverness land Courier CONCENTRATED said a superlative swell at one of our yesterday bring the nutritive vegetables The wha said tho waiter The nutritive Haven't got a single drop of brand in tha cellar said t- cr not wishing to show Im ignorance and believing it was some rare was called for excellent Larose sa nnd soma very fine sparkling hock bring you a bottle said the in a tono as drawling aa a Methodist Minister would pronounce a benediction you awe excessively ignorant you awe you awe an unfinished idea of Bring me the sa said of greasy slurring his tongue over every un- you when you French Away he flew in a moment a plate of potatoes waa placed before the Picayune CREDIT u a superfine suit of clothes and I remain your everlasting debtor said a gentleman who was being measured bv a Heaven piously ejaculated
